Share Life

Years ago, if we wanted to share our memories with our friends or family we would grab a disposable camera, take pictures of our camping trip or our visit to Disney and when we returned to civilization.we could take that camera to a drugstore and get the film developed. It took about a week I think. Then we would arrange our memories in a photo album and all our friends or family could see what a great time we had.

As time passed and technology improved we bought digital cameras and home computers. We could then connect our camera to the pc and transfer our memories one at a time onto popular social media sites.

Nowadays we just point our cellphones at whatever we want to capture, snap a photo or take a video. If we have the right apps installed we can instantly share our memories on any one of a dozen social media sites. Using our phones or tablets we can chat, share, send mail, shop, bank, etc.

Gone are the days when we need to be glued to our computers to interact with people. Now we have time to live more useful lives and to share those lives with our family and our friends.

So why is it that when I look around me, I see 4 out of 5 people staring at their phones?

The Second Line

Park Manager was by today. I live in a trailer park. She wanted to drop off a letter about the proposed rent increase for next year. Also, something about having water meters installed. I guess if you plan to sell your trailer you have to have one installed sometime this year but if you plan to stay you can wait five years. Duh. That didn't take too much thinking. Although I will have to have a few words with her about how I'm supposed to be paying my water through the municipality instead of having it factored into my lot rental like we been doing for the past seven years. If the park isn't footing the bill for that anymore then I think there should be a decrease in my lot rental, not an increase. Oh well, it's not even five dollars. So my total lot rent will be $325 and my mortgage is about $300 a month, so I pay $625, plus utilities to own my own home. Sounds like a good deal to me.

Now if I can just find an app that will remotely disable some of the car stereos in the neighborhood I'd be laughing. Oh well, that's what the second line is for. In the serenity prayer. Accepting things I cannot change. I wish I could get those boys to start acting like adults, but I wasn't much better when I was their age.

Well thats's all from Mulgrave Lane. for today anyway.